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But how much of it is myth? At the heart of Bon: The Last Highway is a special — and unlikely — friendship between an Australian rock star and an alcoholic Texan troublemaker. Jesse Fink, author of the critically acclaimed international bestseller The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC, reveals its importance for the first time. Leaving no stone unturned in a three-year journey that begins in Austin and ends in London, Fink takes the reader back to a ISBN 978-1-77041-409-9 legendary era for music that saw the relentless AC/DC machine 6 x 9", 440pp, paper achieve its commercial breakthrough but also threaten to come 30 colour photos in section apart. With unprecedented access to Bon’s lovers, newly unearthed $22.95 CDN / $18.95 U.S. documents, and a trove of never-before-seen photos, Fink divulges November 2017 startling new information about Bon’s last hours to solve the mystery of how he died. ✽ Features a previously unpublished audio Music fans around the world have been waiting for the original, interview with Bon, unseen photographs, and forensic, unflinching, and masterful biography Bon Scott so richly in-depth interviews with such rock legends as deserves — and now, finally, it’s here. Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones and Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony. JESSE FINK was born in London in 1973. He is the author of The Youngs: The ✽ AC/DC has sold over 200M albums and has Brothers Who Built AC/DC, which was released in more than 20 countries. Bon: The 30M Facebook fans. Back in Black is the Last Highway is his fourth book. He divides his time between Sydney, Australia, and second bestselling album of all time, after Thriller. São Paulo, Brazil, with his wife and daughter. ✽ Bon is #1 on Classic Rock’s “100 Greatest Frontmen of All Time” list, ahead of Freddie Mercury, Jim Morrison, and Robert Plant. YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE Beer Drinkers Van Halen Rising and Hell Raisers How a Southern California The Rise of Motörhead Backyard Party Band Martin Popoff Saved Heavy Metal 978-1-77041-347-4, paper Greg Renoff $22.95 CDN / $18.95 U.S. 978-1-77041-263-7, paper $21.95 CDN / $18.95 U.S. 2 television ecw press | fall 2017 frontlist Head of Drama The Memoir of Sydney Newman SYDNEY NEWMAN, WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY GRAEME BURK AND A FOREWORD BY TED KOTCHEFF The memoir of the creator of Doctor Who and a SLNLUKPU)YP[PZOHUK*HUHKPHU;=HUKÄST A MAJOR INFLUENCE on the BBC and independent television in Britain in the 1960s, as well as on CBC and the National Film Board in Canada, Sydney Newman acted as head of drama at a key period in the history of television. For the first time, his comprehensive memoirs — written in the years before his death in 1997 — are being made public. Born to a poor Jewish family in the tenements of Queen Street in Toronto, Newman’s artistic talent got him a job at the NFB under John Grierson. He then became one of the first producers at CBC TV before heading overseas to the U.K. where he revitalized ISBN 978-1-77041-304-7 drama programming. Harold Pinter and Alun Owen were 6 x 9", 592pp, paper playwrights whom Newman nurtured, and their contemporary, 48 b&w photos throughout socially conscious plays were successful, both artistically and $29.95 CDN / $22.95 U.S. commercially. At the BBC, overseeing a staff of 400, he developed September 2017 a science fiction show that flourishes to this day: Doctor Who. 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Burk combed through the BBC more than 50 television shows and 20 films; he lives in Los Angeles, California. archives and Newman’s personal papers, and, in addition to his essay, annotated Newman’s story to provide more context to the memoir. YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE Director’s Cut Moguls, Monsters My Life in Film and Madmen Ted Kotcheff with Josh Young An Uncensored Life 978-1-77041-361-0, cloth in Show Business $29.95 CDN / $26.95 U.S. Barry Avrich 978-1-77041-287-3, cloth $28.95 CDN / $25.95 U.S. ecw press | fall 2017 frontlist television 3 A Dream Given Form ;OL<UVѝJPHS.\PKL[V[OL<UP]LYZLVM Babylon 5 ENSLEY F. GUFFEY AND K. DALE KOONTZ The only comprehensive critical guide to the ILSV]LKZJPÄWOLUVTLUVU A DREAM GIVEN FORM provides an accessible, comprehensive, and critical look at Babylon 5, one of the most groundbreaking series of all time. 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